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The application requires Image science which is dependent on Ruby Inline. After a tough time installing Image science and ruby inline, the gems were successfully installed. But when I tried to start ...

I want to provide a custom Search Connector for Windows Search without accessing a php or aspx website. Is this possible? I don't find anything.
It is not possible to create tmp files because of the ...

i would like to make a combobox with QT and want to set it on the toolbar.
User should see on the Toolbar only icons, so this comboBox should show only the icon of an item on the toolbar.
But after ...

I am using GetFileInformationByHandleEx to get FILE_ID_INFO structure it contains VolumeSerialNumber field. For some file located on my logical volume C: it is 32B7232F at the same time vol C: shows ...

Currently I am trying to run an unreal 4 application in a wpf window. However I only want the users to see the window not click it or use it. I have tried all sorts of workarounds for this but none ...

When I use the PHP exec() command on a mounted shared folder I do not get an output. When I run the same command via the command line it works fine. Example:
My W:\ drive is a shared drive. When I am ...

I'm trying to figure out how disable display devices programatically but not having any luck. The closest I have gotten is with this, but none of these flags seem to allow me to disable the monitor, ...

Windows shows an own kind of "mouse cursor" when using a touch screen: This is a small diamond-like icon which only shows up when using touch, not when using the mouse.
I would like to disable this ...

I want to write a time converter in windows batch script. It is going to be used when I want to set an appointment (I want to put it in my email content). The script should be able to print out the ...

I am trying to debug an application that is cross-compiled on a Windows host for a Linux target.
The problem:
Because the initial compilation is in windows the stored source file paths in the binary ...

I have Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate installed on my machine and I use it daily for work. I also have VS 2013 professional installed but rarely use it. I am running windows 8.1.
Recently, when I have ...

Windows has so many APIs on this it is ridiculous. Supposedly MediaFoundation is the way to do this, but I see a lot of 'deprecated' in the MSDN documentation and the sample they provide is only for ...

I've found an example of opening and closing windows in Tkinter, which I'm going to edit to fit my needs. The root window appears, you click the button, another Toplevel window appears while the root ...

I am trying to update a resource in a DLL file. The DLL file in question contains an RT_VERSION (16) resource, several RT_STRING (6), and a number of resources of custom resource types. I am using the ...

My national language is Polish.
I've got program in Python 3.4 which I wrote on linux. This program mostly work on text, Polish text. So of course, variable names don't have any special characters, ...

Pretty green to Ant here. I've been running into a problem of trying to get a .jar file to compile in my script (specifically the rt.jar). I've tried two different ways to fix this (most of which has ...

The CVS repo is on a linux box, but the files checked in are from windows clients with names using æ/ø/å. I'm probably the first non-windows user to interact with that repo, and I didn't know about ...